Electric Vehicle Charging Robot Charging Port Identification Method Based on Multi-algorithm Fusion

  • Jia Zhang
  • , Tao Geng
  • , Jun Xu
  • , Yang Li
  • , Chen Zhang

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Abstract

Aiming at the problem of plugging and positioning identification in the process of automatic charging of electric vehicles, especially the difficult problem of low efficiency and accuracy of identification in complex operation environment, this article proposes a multi-algorithm fusion of electric vehicle charging port identification method, which can effectively obtain the characteristic information of the round hole of charging port and realize the purpose of automatic identification of charging port by robot. Firstly, an electric vehicle charging port in a complex environment is analyzed and simulated, and camera selection and calibration are explained; on this basis, algorithms based on image smoothing filtering, feature detection segmentation of ROI region, improved Canny edge detection and combined mathematical morphology are proposed to correlate the charging port image respectively, and the features of the target charging port jack are extracted. Finally, the experimental verification of the charging port identification method was conducted for different illumination intensities and different shooting distances. The experimental results show that the identification success rate is 93.3% under the weak illumination and 97.8% under the normal illumination intensity of 4000lx. This shows that the method can effectively improve the robustness and accuracy of the charging port identification.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - 14th International Conference, ICIRA 2021, Proceedings
EditorsXin-Jun Liu, Zhenguo Nie, Jingjun Yu, Fugui Xie, Rui Song
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages680-693
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783030891336
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event14th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2021 - Yantai, China
Duration: 22 Oct 202125 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13015 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityYantai
Period22/10/2125/10/21

Keywords

  • Charging port
  • Charging robot
  • Identification algorithm

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